THE striker has now scored six goals against Terry Butcher's side this season and Well have now fired a dozen goals in three wins against the Highland team.

CAN we play you every week? Michael Higdon must have driven home singing it to himself.

The Motherwell striker’s double took his goal tally against Inverness to six for the season while Well have now fired a dozen goals in three wins against Terry Butcher’s team.

The Fir Park side battered the Highlanders yesterday and took second spot from them like candy from a kid.

Higdon’s goals book-ended Nicky Law’s effort seven minutes after the break and saw Higgy hit a career-high of 18 strikes for the year.

The 29-year-old beamed: “My target was to beat last season’s total of 16 goals so I’m two ahead already with 14 or 15 games to go.

“I don’t know what it is about Inverness, why I do so well against them yet I can’t seem to score against Kilmarnock.

“But either way we’re in a good position with a game in hand and a match coming up against Dundee United on Tuesday.”

Despite five games without a win, and only two victories in their last 10, Caley Thistle had been clinging on to their place as the best of the rest for weeks – but as soon as they went behind on the half hour here, they were done.

Up to then, the game had been wide open with both sides giving each other the room to play in the middle but neither team taking advantage. It was box to box, but ever end to end.

Kallum Higginbotham, making his first start since his loan move from Huddersfield, had been busy, sending a 30-yarder just wide from the left then teeing up a great chance from the byeline on the right that found no takers in the six-yard box.

And at the other end Aaron Doran’s 30-yarder from a Tom Hateley howler almost teed up the opener.

Darren Randolph made a desperate parry that fell straight to Andrew Shinnie but the flag was up before he managed to bury the rebound.

Sometimes you just need a break though and Well got theirs on the half hour. Seconds earlier, Henrik Ojamaa looked a cert to score. A wee drop of his shoulder bought him the space to shoot – but Higdon got in his team-mate’s way and deflected the shot past a post.

Next attack? This time Ojamaa was clean through but duffed his shot from the angle on the left.

He couldn’t have taken a bigger divot if he’d used a wedge.

It was a complete trundler but it slipped past everyone and who was there at the back post to tap home from two yards but Higdon.

Inverness were goners when Well grabbed two goals in three minutes just after the break. The first came from another break of the ball, Ojamaa again seeing an effort from the edge of the box deflected.

This time it looped up to Nicky Law, who miscued his first nibble at it before burying his second attempt with the Caley defence all over the shop.